green leaf pie

torta di foglie verdi green leaf pie I love this time of the year for all the winter greens growing in the veggie patch. Silverbeet, spinach, cavolo nero, cime di rapa, cabbage, cauliflower, fennel, broccoli, lettuce leaves and more. They all just seem to thrive on the crisp fresh mornings and chilly cold nights! Of…

strawberry ice cream

gelato alla fragola stawberry ice cream I’m thrilled to say that this is the first summer (after many attempts) that I have been successfully able to grow my very own strawberries! Unfortunately not enough to make strawberry ice cream, but, alas, sufficient to savour the sweet marvel that is freshly grown & picked strawberries! The…

rotolo al forno (rotolo bake)

Rotolo Al Forno Rotolo Bake Whilst I enjoy a traditional ‘rotolo’, I have simplified it in this recipe titled “Rotolo Bake” using fresh pasta sheets filled with a mixture of silverbeet & ricotta, (essentially, a silverbeet & ricotta cannelloni), cut in half, sat upright in a large saucepan, filled with a thick bath of sugo.…

Involtini Di Verza

involtini di verza (savoy cabbage rolls with pork & rice) Did you love ‘cabbage rolls’ as a child? I recently posted a photo on my personal instagram account of our homemade cabbage rolls for dinner; the amount of followers who reminiscently commented that I had taken them back was tremendous! And I get taken back…